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  • Adding pictures and sounds to a narrative doesn't expand the possibilities of text, it shrinks them to technological limitations while shifting the Imagination from a central/active role to a voyeur's passive one (the little work remaining is a sympathetic reflex: projecting oneself into the action).

    Our Stories 2009

  • Nonetheless, getAbstract quite enjoys this voyeur's look at how these big shots imploded and how to avoid making the same mistakes.

    Inside 'How They Blew It' getAbstract 2010

  • Featuring a powerhouse cast-- Douglas, Turner, Powell, Sullivan, as well as Walter Pidgeon and a personal favorite, Gloria Grahame--this scathing look at the inner workings of Tinseltown is a Hollywood voyeur's dream.

    John Farr: Kirk Douglas Turns 95! John Farr 2011

  • They give the impression that there is nothing separating the voyeur's gaze from the Flapper's nude body except a scrim of silk.

    Single definition of American Woman proves elusive at Costume Institute 2010

  • Nonetheless, getAbstract quite enjoys this voyeur's look at how these big shots imploded and how to avoid making the same mistakes.

    Inside 'How They Blew It' getAbstract 2010

  • Gillette supposed that she'd been hired not by Horizon On-line -- or by Horizon alone -- but by a consortium of Internet service providers to find the source code for Trapdoor, the ultimate voyeur's software, which gave complete access to the lives of the unsuspecting.

    Forgetfulness ISCARS 2010

  • I used Laura's iPod for a week and had a voyeur's trip through her life.

    Andrei Codrescu: Growing Up The IPod Way 2009

  • As crime writers we have a free voyeur's ticket to all the bedrooms, backseats, and brothels our charcters frequent.

    Let's Do It Like They Do On The Discovery Channel 2007

  • In group practice, looking at each person first with caring concern helps to prevent being the object of someone's mirror-like awareness from feeling like being the object of a voyeur's stare.

    Developing Balanced Sensitivity: Practical Buddhist Exercises for Daily Life (Revised Second Edition) ��� 10 Applying the Five Types of Deep Awareness 2009

  • Erotic the work certainly is, with its focus on (mainly) feminine sexuality, and the beauty -- and vulnerability -- of the female form: naked, often provocatively posed, sometimes mercilessly exposed to the voyeur's gaze.

    Peter Clothier: Marlene Dumas: Eros and Thanatos 2008

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